[Vision2020] Trivia 24 answers

lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Thu Oct 8 17:19:53 PDT 2015






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>Subject: [Vision2020] Trivia 24
>From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Date: 10/08/15 03:17:20
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>Who was the prosecutor in the murder trial of Diamondfield Jack Davis?  William Borah( future senator) Davis was hired by Sparks-Harrell Cattle Co. to keep sheep herders off of cattle range.. Davis was convicted of killing two sheepherders on Deep Creek. Gov. Hunt pardoned him after two others confessed. He moved to Nevada and struck it rich. He was killed by a taxi cab in Los Vagas in 1945.
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>Which Booth saved a Lincoln?  Robert Lincoln was on a crowded railroad platform and was pushed off. Edwin Booth grabbed him and pulled him back up. Edwin Booth was a staunch unionist.
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>Town in Idaho named for a Sheriff/outlaw?  Plummer was probably named after Henry Plummer who was hung by vigilantes in Virginia City, Montana
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>Who was the Confederate General that endorsed Grant for president?  James Longstreet
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>What act put an end to the open range?  The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. It established grazing permits assigned to area ranches. Before that any on could run any amount of cattle on public lands. this resulted in severe over grazing.
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>Roger
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